Homeroom 57

Hana

At the start of the exhibition I had mostly gotten all of my research done, which I thought was going to be the hardest part. But I think I was wrong since I now had to develop a central idea using a broad topic, like how technology can affect our mental and physical health in a bad way. And at that moment I knew that i had just gotten a taste of how hard exhibition was going to be. but after getting that thought out of my head I started the hard work which is brainstorming related concepts that could relate to my topic and I found that the best concepts that related to my topic were technology, effects and people. So overall I thought it was difficult to brainstorm two to three concepts, but I enjoyed sharing my thoughts out loud to my peers and class because it helped to clarify why I wanted to explore my topic in the first place. Then I knew exactly where my exhibition was going.

Hana Abdelfattah Exhibition

Applying ATL in different settings

I used my reflection skills and summarised the main parts of the text. And doing this, helped me understand the author's message and how the genre of this text, helped me see how the text was organised.

Vinuga

Exibition Slides Final

Shimaz

central idea: Technology has helped communication throughout the years

Action

I used all of my research and wrote it down onto a poster. I chose to present it as a poster because everyone can see it. I also wanted to be a risk taker by trying something new, like not using Google Slides.

Now I feel happy because I finished all of my research. I feel relieved and proud! I thought I wouldn't finish it on time but I did!

My Reflection

Learner profiles Shimaz

Tafida

Sienna

Exhibition

Provocation

Starting my provocation was hard because I was confused about what my topic was. But after researching more about different potential topics for How the World Works, I discovered a new topic that interested me and that I wanted to learn more about.

Developing questions

When developing questions I had to think about how I could connect it to my topic and how I could use it as sub headings.

Refining my topic and questions

I have also made sure the language I used was appropriate while explaining my topic, the journey was hard at first because being in lockdown wasn't the easiest i had to work by myself to make sure I:

Knew what I was doing
Knew the process
Fixed the errors in my research
Try not to get distracted. I thought that I wasn't going to be finished in time, there was also a lot of pressure during the time limit I had but now I feel more confident now knowing that I have completed my research, while doing my exhibition I didn't think a lot about my language i was using but now learning about how I can structure my words and my tone, I am now using more appropriate words that relate to my topic to make it clear.

Applying my ATL in different settings

Some skills that I have done through exhibition is my communication skills and my thinking skills, and I say those skills because when using my communication skills it helped me because while communicating it helped me to help me gather more information, while using my thinking skills I thought about how I can structure it while also thinking of a plan so kind of thinking ahead.

Reuben

Poster for exhibition.pdf

Central Idea:

Natural laws change our society over time

Developing Questions

My Action

Letter.pdf

Final Upload for Exhibition (12 Nov 2021 at 10:50 am)

Applying my ATL in Music

Hassatu

Central Idea

I was first focusing on my question which was ‘How did the inventions develop?’ And that question was under the concept change, so I knew that my main concept was going to be change and development. In one lesson we were working on refining our questions and making it more specific.

I refined my question to ‘how has technology changed over the years?’, This question was better than my original because I thought that it made more sense and I know that people would understand it more since it was more distinct!

Action

I know that our action is a small part of the exhibition, but I still wanted to work on it so then my parents and the people I am presenting to will see my outcome and my information.

I only recorded the important information that is necessary and I also presented it in a timeline because I feel like it matched with my topic since it’s how technology developed over time or throughout history.

Adut

Exhibition

Central Idea:

Technology Impacts Our Wellbeing

Labeeqa

Action

Process

PROVOCATIONS

provocation 1

The provocations were the first stage of the exhibition process. We had many WebEx meetings where we were given material that got us wondering about the different trans themes. This stage definitely helped in creating our topics.

provocation 2

In this provocation we were shown a video of a teacher from RMIT who was a medical scientist. In this provocation we looked at how technology changed medicine. This made me think about the how technology changed the future and had a great impact on my topic now.

TOPIC AND QUESTIONS

After the provocations, I had a clear idea on what I wanted to focus on. I wanted to focus on technology. To formulate questions we used the concept grid. We created questions based on each concept. I chose 3 questions that were the most interesting and refined it by following the 3 criteria:

how open it was
- how interesting it was
- how related it was to the trans-theme

Casey

Exhibition Slide

Technology generates Change

Reflecting on my central idea I think that my verb links my two concepts together and my concepts were strong. I chose this concept because they were the main ones in my question and topic.

Developing Questions

Applying ATL in different settings

The skills that I used is,

-Thinking Skills

-Research Skills

-Communication Skills

I used these skills because I had to Research and organize my information efficiently, e.g using subtitles

I used communication skills because I talked to my peers and gave each other advice.

Alan

Exhibition

Developing my Central Idea

Sebastian

Exhibition .pdf

Applying ATL in Reader's Workshop

Reflection.pdf

My Reflection

Jack

Exhibition

My Reflection

At the start of the exhibition though I wasn't going to do well until I found a good topic ‘how Climate change affects Animal Habitats’ so I studied at home and at school even when I went to my Grandparents house on a holiday. But when COVID-19 was bad i was scared that I wouldn't go ahead, so at home I went on my Computer and done my research on Google and I downloaded Google Docs.

Bridget

Bridget Exhibition .pdf

Final Upload for Exhibition (12 Nov 2021 at 10:42 am).MOV

Mia O

Final Upload for Exhibition (11 Nov 2021 at 1:24 pm).MOV

exhibition 2

Developing my Central Idea

Applying my ATL in Reader's Workshop

This is a book that I have been reading. It is called Therapy Dogs and it can be found on Epic! I was thinking about how Therapy Dogs could help and what they do. I was able to make connections about why Therapy dogs are important because they help people.

French exhibition / hot air balloon

Pahal

Applying ATL in Reader's Workshop

I was able to analyse the text by highlighting key words. This helped me understand the main idea of this text.

Refining my related concepts

Developing my Central Idea

Teodor

Foam

Reflecting

My Reflections

Sub-Headings for images

Developing questions

I had to figure out what I was going to choose for my PE Exhibition. I was able to find my topic by looking back into what my interests were. Now looking back, I feel productive and I have learnt some things like different materials were used for swim suits like silk and wool.

Refining questions

When I was refining my questions, it felt complicated because most of the questions were 'vague'. I refined them by looking back over my research and prior knowledge. Then I used key concepts to help decide which was the most important and related to my topic.

Eli

Central Idea:

Technology affects progress and causes change.

Creating my central idea was hard because I had to find something that suited my topic and I found the central idea that I was looking for.

Final Upload for Exhibition (11 Nov 2021 at 1:28 pm).MOV

Applying ATL in different settings

Aidan

CENTRAL IDEA: OVER TIME ORGANISMS EVOLVE IN MANY WAYS

My central idea took a while to narrow down to get it perfect. First I had to identify my concepts for my main focus. This focus was “how humans have evolved”. The concepts I found were:

Discovery
Evolution
Sustainability
Organism

Once I had gotten my concepts I needed to narrow it down even more to get my key concepts. At first I decided on evolution and sustainability. I thought it was great until I had to make my central idea. The two topics didn't really match. So eventually I came to the conclusion that I needed to change my key concepts. To me sustainability was the one that made it the most difficult. So I decided to swap that key concept. Now I had to find another concept that matched with evolution and I thought that organism was perfect. It added more variety, including fauna, humans and flora, it also could easily connect with evolution. So now I had my two key concepts, Organism and evolution. First I wanted to talk about how evolution takes time, so I added “over time” as one of my extra words. I felt that “over time” by itself wasn't enough, so eventually I came up with “in many ways”. The first configuration I came up with was “Organisms evolve over time in many ways”. However I found that it didn't flow very well. So I reconfigured the words so that it did flow. I wrote “over time organisms evolve in many ways”. This central idea was simple, easy to understand and read, it was broad but not too broad.

Evolution is when there is genetic variation within the physical aspects of an animal that has become common. Natural selection is the main reason for evolution. Natural selection is when helpful traits to an animal become more common and the negative become rarer. One of the most well known examples of this is the peppered moth. The peppered moth is a species that had 2 different colours. There was the white moth and the black one. Because the peppered moth lived in the trees that had lighter bark such as birch trees the white peppered moth thrived because of its camouflage. However the black one would more commonly be seen by predators, therefore lowering its numbers. However everything changed when the industrial revolution came. These once lightly coloured trees were now covered in soot and ash. In turn the dark moths were camouflaged and began to thrive, while the white moth didn't have its camouflage anymore and was seen by predators more often. This made the black moth much more common than the white.

There would be many more animals and plants that would be thriving because humans wouldn't have contributed to pollution and other negative things. A bunch of other mammals that went extinct because of humans would most likely be living. These are things such as saber tooth tigers and Tasmanian tigers. Even if humans did exist but then went extinct, nature would quickly take over. We know this because ruins of a city from only 2000 years ago have been found buried. Without humans the world would look just like it did millions of years ago.

Approaches to Learning

Exhibition has helped me develop my skills. It has helped me with my research, thinking and management skills. It helped me with my research skills as when I had to find information for my topic it made me think more about this and how I should research. I used my thinking skills during the time I had to organise and summarise my notes and ideas. And finally management skills when I had to think about the time I use for each task and manage when i do my tasks.

Knowledge + Concepts

The concepts and key concepts that I had helped me gain knowledge. These concepts helped a lot. They helped to guide me during my work. Finding what concepts I wanted to use at first was quite difficult but once I had them it made researching, finding my central idea and organising my work much easier. So once I got my concepts it made me knowledgeable.

Mia S

Impact of technology

Exhibition process

Final Upload for Exhibition (12 Nov 2021 at 10:42 am).MOV

Action

Luqman

Slide Carousel

The process of forming a central idea requires precise planning and thinking, using a bit of the process of elimination. I had to observe and understand what concepts fit my topic, which in my case was technological advancement, and to make sure those concepts fit well, I needed to then justify my thinking by writing down my reasoning for my choice. The next step was to go further, looking if I could find those related concepts in my resources I used, like websites and other non fiction sources, and classify any concepts on the sites like “technology” and “impact”. The final stage was writing the central idea, picking a final 2-3 concepts and a precise verb as a connective. A problem or struggle I had during this stage was trimming down the length of my central idea, while trying to word it coherently, since I had to try to find synonyms to long phrases or words I used. Overall, this process was a fun yet difficult one and I am proud of my outcome.

Research

Reflections

Thinking tracks

Approaches to Learning

The approaches to learning are the vital skills needed to advance further in the exhibition in all the stages. Before the exhibition, I didn't understand my approaches to learning and their purpose, but the exhibition has put a spotlight on them. ATLs acted as a guide to help me manage my time and research well, by practising ATL skills like summarising, time management, and presentation skills. The use of these skills helped contribute to my confidence in my research topic, and improving them enhanced my motivation in exhibition, so I am grateful for the fact that betterment ATLs were included in the exhibition process.

Knowledge + Concepts

Researching and gathering knowledge about my topic is actually linked with my concepts I used to form my central idea. This is because of what I said before about finding concepts in research resources. Identifying matching concepts in my resources helped me find out what was and wasn’t relevant. For example, if I'm researching about the information age, and an article displays knowledge about the concept of technology, I would know that the article would be just right for me. Concepts are a very essential part of exhibition, acting as a tool to gain knowledge